§ Sir G. Foxasked the Minister of Labour and National Service whether he can give the numbers of unemployed in Oxford and the vicinity in each of the last three months for which figures are available; and the number of skilled workers unemployed?
§ Mr. E. Brown,pursuant to his reply(OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st October, 1939; col. 1764, Vol. 352), supplied the following statement
The total numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of the Oxford Employment Exchange at 14th August, nth September and 16th October, 1939, were 1,038, 2,417 and 3,834, respectively. Statistics are not available as to the numbers of skilled workers included in these totals.